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Forwarding event, inventory, and metric data

You can forward event, inventory, and metric data from Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator to external applications, which you can use to monitor and analyze data.

About this task

Events data
XClarity Orchestrator can forward events that occur in your environment to external tools, based on criteria (filters) that you specify. Every generated event is monitored to see if it matches the criteria. If it matches, the event is forwarded to the specified location using the indicated protocol.

XClarity Orchestrator supports forwarding event data to the following external tools.

  • Email. Event data is forwarded to one or more email addresses using SMTP.
  • Intelligent Insights. Event data is forwarded in a predefined format to SAP Data Intelligence. You can then use SAP Data Intelligence for managing and monitoring the event data.
  • REST. Event data is forwarded over the network to a REST Web Service.
  • Syslog. Event data is forwarded over the network to a central log server where native tools can be used to monitor the syslog.

XClarity Orchestrator uses global filters to define the scope of event data to be forwarded. You can create event filters to forward only events with specific properties, including event codes, event classes, event severities, and service types. You can also create device filters forward only events that are generated by specific devices.

Inventory and events data
XClarity Orchestrator can forward all inventory and event data for all devices to external applications, which you can use to monitor and analyze data.
  • Splunk. Event data is forwarded in a predefined format to a Splunk application. You can then use Splunk to create graphs and charts based on event data.

    You can define multiple Splunk configurations; however, XClarity Orchestrator can forward events to only one Splunk configuration. Therefore, only one Splunk configuration can be enabled at a time.

Metrics data
XClarity Orchestrator can forward metric data that it collects about managed devices to the following external tool.
  • TruScale Infrastructure Services. Metric data is forwarded in a predefined format to the Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure Services. You can then use TruScale Infrastructure Services for managing and monitoring the metric data.
    Attention
    Information about TruScale Infrastructure Services forwarder is intended only for Lenovo Service representatives.

    You can define multiple TruScale Infrastructure Services forwarders; however, XClarity Orchestrator can forward metric data to only one TruScale Infrastructure Services forwarder. Therefore, only one TruScale Infrastructure Services forwarder can be enabled at a time.

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Procedure

Complete the following steps to forward data.

  1. Create a forwarder destination.

    Forwarder destinations are common configurations that can be use by multiple data forwarders. The forwarder destination identifies where the data is to be sent for a specific type of forwarder.

  2. Create event and resource filters (for event forwarders only).

    You can optionally assign common data-forwarding filters to multiple data forwarders. These filters are used to define specific criteria to determine what events to forward for which resources.

    If you do no assign filters to the data forwarder, all events for all resources are forwarded to the selected forwarder destination.

  3. Create and enable a data forwarder.

    You can create and enable data forwarders to forward event data to a specific external application. You must choose a forwarder destination that is applicable to the type of forwarder you are creating.